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66
Citations
26411
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2034
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831

A. Park Williams publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. Park Williams sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 126 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

A. Park Williams D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. Park Williams sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

A. Park Williams is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a specialization in global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and ecology.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and models, the effects of fire on ecosystems, tree-ring climate responses, hydrology and drought analysis, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for A. Park Williams include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth s Future
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Climate
  • Nature Climate Change

They have collaborated on multiple occasions with co-authors such as Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, John T. Abatzoglou, Richard Seager, and Edward R. Cook.

Selected recent papers by A. Park Williams include:

  • "Twenty-First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios," 2020, Earth s Future
  • "Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought," 2020, Science
  • "Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020-2021," 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • "Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth's forests," 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests

    John T. Abatzoglou;A. Park Williams

  • Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

    A. Park Williams;Craig D. Allen;Alison K. Macalady;Daniel Griffin

  • Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

    W. R.L. Anderegg;C. Schwalm;F. Biondi;J. J. Camarero

  • Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California

    A. Park Williams;John T. Abatzoglou;Alexander Gershunov;Janin Guzman‐Morales

  • Twenty-First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios

    B. I. Cook;B. I. Cook;J. S. Mankin;J. S. Mankin;K. Marvel;K. Marvel;A. P. Williams

  • Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought.

    A. Park Williams;Edward R. Cook;Jason E. Smerdon;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021

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  • Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests

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  • Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012–2014

    A. Park Williams;Richard Seager;John T. Abatzoglou;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • A westward extension of the warm pool leads to a westward extension of the Walker circulation, drying eastern Africa

    A. Park Williams;Christopher C. Funk

  • Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices

    John T. Abatzoglou;A. Park Williams;Renaud Barbero

  • Land-atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate concurrent soil drought and atmospheric aridity.

    Sha Zhou;Sha Zhou;A. Park Williams;Alexis M. Berg;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

    Michael Goss;Daniel L Swain;Daniel L Swain;Daniel L Swain;John T Abatzoglou;John T Abatzoglou;Ali Sarhadi

  • Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States

    A. Park Williams;Craig D. Allen;Constance I. Millar;Thomas W. Swetnam

  • Evaluating theories of drought‐induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel–experiment framework

    Nate G. McDowell;Rosie A. Fisher;Chonggang Xu;J. C. Domec;J. C. Domec

  • Rapid warming accelerates tree growth decline in semi-arid forests of Inner Asia

    Hongyan Liu;A. Park Williams;Craig D. Allen;Dali Guo

  • Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise

    Nathan G. McDowell;A.P. Williams;A.P. Williams;C. Xu;W. T. Pockman

  • Projected increases in intensity, frequency, and terrestrial carbon costs of compound drought and aridity events.

    Sha Zhou;Yao Zhang;A. Park Williams;Pierre Gentine

  • Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities.

    Monica G. Turner;W. John Calder;Graeme S. Cumming;Terry P. Hughes

  • Global patterns of interannual climate-fire relationships.

    John T. Abatzoglou;A. Park Williams;Luigi Boschetti;Maria Zubkova

  • Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence

    Kate Marvel;Kate Marvel;Benjamin I. Cook;Céline J. W. Bonfils;Paul J. Durack

  • Sensitivity of grassland productivity to aridity controlled by stomatal and xylem regulation

    A. G. Konings;A. G. Konings;A. P. Williams;P. Gentine

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin I. Cook
Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Richard Seager
Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jason E. Smerdon
Jason E. Smerdon Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Justin S. Mankin
Justin S. Mankin Dartmouth College
John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Christopher J. Still
Christopher J. Still Oregon State University
Yao Zhang
Yao Zhang Peking University
Sha Zhou
Sha Zhou Columbia University
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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